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Updated: May 23, 2025
We must try to be as business-like as they are. So let's get in our work and get it in first." Daffingdon's eyes roamed the rugs, the hangings, the furniture. "'The Genius of the City," he murmured vaguely, "'Encouraging Encouraging' " "Yes, yes," spoke Virgilia, doing a little encouraging herself.
Andrew P. Hill poked at Daffingdon's neatly drawn-up memorandum with a callous finger and blighted it with an indifferent look out of a lack-lustre eye. The mensarii of Rome and the trapezites of Athens seemed a long way off. The picturesque beginnings of the Bank of Genoa left him cold. The raid of the Stuart king on the Tower mint appeared to have very little to do with the case.
We'll choke off that foolish notion of theirs; we'll smother it before it has a chance to mature." She put a pen into Daffingdon's hand, with the open expectation of immediate results. She herself always thought better with a pen in her hand and a writing-pad under it; no doubt a painter would respond to the same stimulus.
At Roscoe Orlando's carriage-block their cab was close behind the livery brougham of the Joyces Abner and his wife were going everywhere, now; and she looked after Medora half in envy, as upon a woman whose future, whether small or great, was at least assured. Nothing consoled her but Daffingdon's seeming determination not to give up. Yes, there was room for more ideas, for further efforts.
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